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Setting a precedent for high-profile defence procurements, Defence minister Manohar Parrikar—in the context of the government’s plan to buy at least 36 French Rafale fighter jets-- said that government-to-government deals were a better way to acquire strategic platforms than open, global tenders.

White-collar criminal Ramalinga Raju, who was found guilty in the Satyam accounting fraud case and sentenced to seven years' imprisonment last week, has challenged the court's verdict.

The Haryana government has invented a novel category, called "status equivalent to Cabinet Minister" for yoga guru Ramdev, the state's Yoga and Ayurveda “brand ambassador.”

Two purported witnesses today told the National Human Rights Commission that last week's shooting of 20 alleged red sanders smugglers by Andhra Pradesh police was a pre-planned mass murder.

The ghost of the controversial section 66A of the Information Technology (IT) Act, may not have been completely exorcised, with IT minister Ravi Shankar Prasad saying that the government was in favour of “fresh guidelines” on the issue.

The Indian Express went to Maldives and Bangladesh to uncover why the Islamic State is emerging as a popular emigration destination to young men from the two countries.

The tardy response to desperate calls by jawans, injured during the Maoist ambush in Chattisgarh last week, may have cost them their lives.

Off The Front Page

A lower court in Himachal Pradesh has ruled that two farmers, who lost land in 1998 due to a railway line on their field, may be eligible to get an entire train—the Delhi-Una Janshatabadi—as compensation.

The Shiv Sena, who’s frequently peeved by its BJP allies in Maharashtra, has taken its angst to Uttar Pradesh and put up hoardings across Kanpur city declaring the political outfit as a party of "fake" followers of Lord Rama.

A 25-year-old migrant labourer bit off part of a policeman’s right ear while the cop was trying to get him into a vehicle at the Aluva railway station, in Kerala, on Sunday.

India’s communist parties have always been against private air carriers but CPI(M) General Secretary Prakash Karat and about a dozen other colleagues, got up early this morning to catch a red-eye Indigo flight—cheaper than the Air India counterpart-- from Delhi to reach the party’s election-meet in Vishakhapatanam.

Two English-medium municipal corporation schools in Ahmedabad, one with a Hindu and the other a Muslim majority, have prescribed saffron and green uniforms respectively for their children.

Opinion

Prabir Purkayastha, in The Hindu, says that India’s telecom regulator has sullied its relatively clean record by hosting a web document on net neutrality that’s clearly written by telecom lobbies.

Pramit Pal Chaudhuri, in The Hindustan Times, says that Hillary Clinton as a possible, future president can be expected to continue where a second-term Obama administration has left off.

Pinaki Roy, in The Indian Express, says that Byomkesh Bakshy, the detective in Dibakar Banerjee’s film, stands out for his ordinariness during an extraordinary period in India’s colonial history.